Vodou, Prejudice and Constructions of Race (Chaired by Karen Salt), ME 320

Lesley S. Curtis (Wellesley College), ‘Black Magic Turned White, or Countering Prejudice against Haiti.’

Natalie Armitage (University of Manchester), ‘Popular Constructions of Haiti and Vodou: Negative Depictions and the ‘Superhumanisation Bias.’’

Marlene L. Daut (Claremont College), ‘Haiti and the Romantics: Enlightenment and Color Prejudice After the Haitian Revolution in Alexandre Dumas’s Georges (1843).’